The Lotka-Volterra equations are a pair of differential equations used to model population dynamics. They assume an idealized environment with two species—one predator and one prey—and describe how the two populations change over time. The equations were developed simultaneously by
I think everyone knows what an ellipse is. It’s an elongated, squished circle that looks kind of like an egg. In mathematical terms, it’s considered a conic section. That means you can slice through a cone and trace an ellipse,
I’m probably two or three years late on this post. I’m not sure how many people still play Wordle with their morning coffee. At one point my streak was over 100 days, but in 2025 it’s only an occasional thing.
I’m most comfortable with Matplotlib. I think that’s obvious at this point. I’m also well aware that it has a (*ahem*) troubled reputation, despite its large footprint in the data world. Much of that reputation is deserved, of course. It’s
I’m a week later than usual on this post because I wanted to wait for the World Series of Poker (WSOP) to finalize Main Event payouts. Registration is closed and this year’s tournament is the third-largest to date. The final
First things first: Yes, that’s a Linkin Park lyric. I’m not proud of it but there aren’t enough pop-culture pendulum references. I think most people understand what a pendulum is. It’s when you have a heavy thing that swings on
This post will dive a little deeper into American politics. I try to avoid it unless there’s something genuinely interesting to say about the data. In this case, I think there is! We’ll look at the last decade of county-level
Yes, there is. In fact, when Republicans gained a majority in the chamber earlier this year, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reclaimed his position as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. When you spend a lot of time in Congress, you
Have you ever had a private conversation near your Amazon Echo and it suddenly lit up like an unwanted eavesdropping little creep? This happened to me and I wondered how much worse it is for women named Alexa. I understand
Usually on the blog we apply a function to each element of a one-dimensional array, like [1, 2, 3], and get back another array, like [10, 20, 30]. Then we use both lists to plot a series of (x, y)
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